The Opposition parties in the centre who are fighting the BJP on several fronts are busy pulling the rug from under each other in the pind. This is visible in the way top leaders of the Congress party and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have been fighting. From citing issues critical to the public such as ending the drug menace in the border state, the battles have become personal.
Recent comments by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of the AAP clearly showed missiles loaded with acerbic personal attacks being launched from both sides
Recent comments made by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of the AAP clearly showed missiles loaded with personal attacks being launched from both sides. Yesterday, at the Congress’s ‘Insaaf Rally’ in Mann’s territory of Sangrur, Gandhi made a direct reference to Mann’s controversial past in what seemed like a strong attack that Gandhi had been powering up for by taking potshots of increasing intensity in recent times. The showdown finally happened in Sangrur yesterday when Gandhi in his criticism of the AAP government in Punjab shared snippets of information from the long past, from a time before Mann became chief minister.
The exchange continued to rise in intensity after anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota was shot dead in Mansa. The AAP replied that he should “get your own party in order. “Now, I am not saying that Bhagwant Mann shouldn’t drink. This is his personal affair. If he chooses to drink, that is entirely his own business.
In a post on X, Gandhi said “a dangerous pattern is visible in Punjab’s AAP government – if you question government failure, the answer will be threats and torture,” and demanded the filing of a police case against state Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema following the death of a 47-year-old man, Gulzar Singh, who had questioned the minister on narcotics. Pointing to the case, Gandhi said on X that “raising a voice against drugs in Punjab has now become a death sentence”. But if you truly want to fight the menace of substance abuse, your chief minister cannot be under the influence every single evening,” Gandhi said.
